Münchenstein High School
| Münchenstein High School | |
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| The Villa Ehinger as part of the school ensemble | |
| type of school | high school |
| founding | 1964 |
| address |
Baselstrasse 33 |
| place | 4142 Münchenstein |
| Canton | Basel-Country |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 613 427 / 264058 |
| carrier | Education, Culture and Sports Directorate |
| student | 700 |
| management | Gabriel Hänggi |
| Website | https://www.gymmuenchenstein.ch |
The Gymnasium Münchenstein is a public Matura school in the Swiss municipality of Münchenstein near Basel with all Matura profiles as well as the federally recognized bilingual classes in French and English. The school has a total of around 700 pupils and is located with the Villa Ehinger belonging to it in an English landscape garden near the Brüglingen plain , almost directly on the border with the city of Basel.
history
The grammar school is the second oldest middle school in the canton of Basel-Landschaft and dates back to 1964. The current main building of the school, which was designed by Wilfrid and Katharina Steib , dates from 1972 and forms the school ensemble together with the Villa Ehinger. The latter was designed by Melchior Berri as the summer residence of the Sarasin family under Ludwig August Sarasin, who, however, died before the construction was completed, whereby the villa passed to the Ehinger family through the marriage of the two Sarasin daughters. The building is one of the most important neo-Renaissance buildings in Switzerland and is an inventory cultural monument. The architectural style of the building with its loggia as the entrance is determined by newly interpreted motifs from the Italian Renaissance . In 1959, the property and the park came to the community and in 1962 again to the canton, thus laying the foundation stone for the construction of the secondary school.
The high school gained national fame during the 1970s with the so-called "Münchensteiner Initiative", when the school and teaching body (under the aegis of the then rector Hans Hafen and former student Daniel Vischer ) jointly launched a national referendum for the introduction of community service in addition to the compulsory one Military service launched. Although the Federal Council had expressed its positive opinion on the initiative in the run-up to the vote, the Swiss electorate finally rejected the request in 1977 with 60 percent.
particularities
Of particular importance for the grammar school are the bilingual classes in French and English, which allow the completion of a federally recognized bilingual Matura. The immersive language lessons in French also give students the opportunity to complete an exchange semester free of charge at a grammar school in French-speaking Switzerland .
The Gymnasium Münchenstein uses a so-called "pool lesson" in each of the main subjects offered, which takes place in the second and third school years and allows emphasis and deepening in a specific subject area. The four areas are:
- Main subjects of artistic design and music: «Film»
- Focus subjects natural sciences: "Research and tinkering"
- Main subjects languages: «Media»
- Focus on economics and law: "Entrepreneurship"
Alumni
- Daniel Vischer (1950–2017), former National Councilor in the Canton of Zurich
- Gregor Eichele (* 1952), Professor of Chemistry at the University of Göttingen
- Anita Fetz (* 1957), former Councilor of States in the canton of Basel-Stadt
- Georg Holländer (* 1957), Professor of Biomedicine at the Universities of Oxford and Basel
- Christian Windler (* 1960), Professor of Modern History at the University of Bern
- Beatrice Weder di Mauro (* 1965), Professor of Economics at the Graduate Institute of the University of Geneva and former economist at the International Monetary Fund
- Corinne Widmer Lüchinger (* 1974), Professor of Private Law at the University of Basel
- Roland Fankhauser (* 1967), professor of civil and civil procedural law at the University of Basel
- Christiana Fountoulakis (* 1977), professor of private and civil law at the University of Friborg
Web links
- Internet presence of the Gymnasium Münchenstein
- Internet presence for the grammar schools in the canton of Basel-Landschaft
- Address by Federal Chancellor Annemarie Huber-Hotz at the Münchenstein High School
Individual evidence
- ↑ Canton of Basel-Landschaft: Information brochure: Gymnasium Münchenstein (2018). Canton of Basel-Landschaft, January 1, 2018, accessed on May 5, 2019 .
- ^ BRH Architects AG - BRH Architects AG. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
- ^ BRH Architects AG - BRH Architects AG. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
- ^ ArchitectureBasel - Italian Renaissance in Münchenstein: Villa Ehinger | Basel building culture # 68. October 27, 2019, accessed on March 8, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
- ^ Villa Ehinger. Retrieved on May 5, 2019 (German).
- ↑ The Münchenstein high school, which never really wanted to grow up. Retrieved on May 5, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
- ↑ Ueli Mäder: 68 - what remains? Rotpunktverlag, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-85869-774-5 , p. 55 .
- ↑ Community service. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Sergio Aiolfi: At the navel of the world | NZZ. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
- ↑ Journal de Genève - 10.11.1976 - Pages 6/7. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Journal de Genève - May 31, 1974 - Pages 10/11. Retrieved March 8, 2020 .
- ^ Bilingual education - Münchenstein high school. Retrieved May 5, 2019 .